 1694 - 1740 (46 years)
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| Name |
Grace Mears [3, 4, 5, 6] |
| Born |
1694 |
Spanishtown, Jamaica, West Indies  [3, 5, 6] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
14 Oct 1740 |
New York, New York (Manhattan), New York [3, 5, 6] |
| Reinterred |
6-14 Jun 1856 |
New York, New York (Manhattan), New York [4] |
| 21st Street Cemetery of Shearith Israel |
| Reference Number |
388 |
| _UID |
1BA7EE077D6A4725BB2C125C560C91B204E9 |
| Buried |
New York, New York (Manhattan), New York [4] |
Address:
Oliver St & Chatham Squarre
New York, New York
USA |
| Person ID |
I388 |
aojd-demo |
| Last Modified |
9 Feb 2012 |
| Family |
Moses Raphael Levy, b. 1665, Germany , d. 14 Jun 1728, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York (Age 63 years) |
| Married |
1717 |
New York [7] |
| Alt. Marriage |
1718 |
London, Middlesex, England [3, 4, 8] |
- The marriage to Moses Raphael Levy was arranged by Grace's Uncle Jacob Mears.
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| Children |
| | 1. Rachel Levy, b. 27 Feb 1719, London, Middlesex, England , d. 12 May 1797, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York (Age 78 years) |
| | 2. Miriam Levy, b. 11 Feb 1720, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York , d. 4 Feb 1749, New York (Age 28 years) |
| | 3. Esther Levy, b. 28 Feb 1721, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York , d. 26 Jun 1785, England (Age 64 years) |
| | 4. Samson Levy, b. 19 Aug 1722, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York , d. 22 Mar 1781, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Age 58 years) |
| | 5. Hannah Levy, b. 22 Sep 1723, d. 3 Apr 1751 (Age 27 years) |
| | 6. Benjamin Levy, b. 5 Sep 1726, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York , d. 3 Feb 1802, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland (Age 75 years) |
| | 7. Joseph Levy, b. 12 Jun 1728, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York , d. 1772, South Carolina (Age 43 years) |
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| Last Modified |
11 Nov 2011 |
| Family ID |
F146 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- (Research):AJLLJ Portraits Database 5 Aug 2011
The youngest child of Sampson and Joy Franks Mears, Grace was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica in 1694. Her family was part of the Atlantic community of Jewish merchants, moving freely through the Caribbean, North America and London.
In 1718 she married widower Moses Levy in London. Levy, who had made his home in New York, already had four children from his first marriage. Grace moved with her husband to New York, and her relationship with her new stepchildren, especially daughter Bilhah Abigail Levy Franks, only two years her junior and who herself had just married a few years prior, was not without tensions.
Together Grace and Moses had an additional seven children, and the family found itself at the center of the burgeoning Jewish community in New York. In 1728 her husband was seized with an illness. Several months later, two days after their youngest son, Joseph, was born, Moses died. During that same emotionally trying year, her brother, Judah, moved to New York.
Though in his will Moses Levy had split his estate between Grace and his ten youngest children— the oldest two being already quite comfortable— she found it necessary to go into business to help support herself. Seven years later, at the age of thirty-nine, Grace remarried to widower David Hays. Her stepdaughter, Bilhah, the consummate gossip, with whom Grace had never had an easy relationship, had this to say on the subject: "I bleive you think wee have abounded in wonderful Marriages but Especialy david Hays and Mrs. Grace Levy Must be Something Surprising for my part I shall hereafter think nothing Imposiable."
Ambassador Loeb who sponsored this site is a relative of Grace Mears Levy. [9]
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| Sources |
- [S81] Joseph, Anne - Research Database, Anne [Goulding] Joseph, (Shared with David M. Kleiman in Montreal, Quebec, Canada 18 March 2009) (Reliability: 3).
- [S285] AOJD & Heritage Muse, Inc., David M. Kleiman, (AOJD-online.net.
Heritage Muse, Inc.
165 West End Ave.
New York, NY 10023
[email protected]).
- [S4] FAJF-Stern, Rabbi Malcolm Stern, (3rd edition updated and revised. n.c.: Genealogical Publishing Company for the American Jewish Archives, 1991.), PG. 190 MEARS (Reliability: 3).
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- [S32] Portraits Etched In Stone, Pool, David De Sola, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1952.), PGS. 225-226 (Reliability: 3).
- [S59] Green-Aryeh Family Tree, EMAIL 6 AUG 2010 ARYEH GREEN TO DAVID M. KLEIMAN (Reliability: 3).
- [S634] Green-Aryeh Family Tree, EMAIL 6 AUG 2010 ARYEH GREEN TO DAVID M. KLEIMAN (Reliability: 3).
- [S4] FAJF-Stern, Rabbi Malcolm Stern, (3rd edition updated and revised. n.c.: Genealogical Publishing Company for the American Jewish Archives, 1991.), PG. 311 CORRECTIONS TO PG. 154 (Reliability: 3).
- [S3] AMLAJA, Judith E. Endelman, (unpublished manuscript), SECTION 3, CHAPTER 2, PG 7 (Reliability: 3).
- [S294] Loeb Jewish Portraits Database, (http://www.loebjewishportraits.com/home.html), LEVY, GRACE MEARS (Reliability: 3).
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